Castoldi Jet Australia is an official Castoldi distributor, also offering technical support and spare parts for Australasia, Indonesia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, The Pacific Islands, Singapore and many other parts of S.E Asia and the Middle East.
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Since the beginning of the first research and developments in 1962 until today Castoldi is still leading the edge with advanced concepts making its waterjet units even more efficient, long lasting, self contained and easy to maintain. Unanimously considered the innovator of the water jet propulsion system, the Castoldi is known as the company that relaunched the system’s popularity thanks to the development of a totally new and groundbreaking design.

Castoldi Company is certified according to ISO 9001 while all the waterjet models comply with the requirements of the major Calssification Registers such as ABS, BV, DNV, RINA, RMRS and RRR.

The Castoldi Jet headquarters are located in Italy, close to Milan.

HISTORY 

ITALIAN TRADITION OF SPEED ON WATER

1906 - 1930
Luigi Castoldi, founder of Castoldi Company and other world renowned Companies such as B.C.S. and Mosa was an ingenious and acclaimed engineer. At the age of 24, he designed a racing boat which, with his brother Achille at the helm, won the 1930 World Speed Record in the 100 HP outboard category.
1933
Mario Castoldi designed the Macchi Castoldi “M.C. 72” hydroplane, which won the Schneider Cup and set the world water speed record of 382,94 knots, which remains unbeaten.
1953
Achille Castoldi, 5 times world champion and world speed recordman 800 Kg Racers class in his “Arno XI” Timossi boat / Ferrari engine F1 : 131,51 knots. Record still unbeaten.
​1960s
Castoldi pioneered the development of its revolutionary system in the early 1960s using facilities which were sophisticated and extraordinary for those times and which are still rare today. Among these are the laboratory boat, equipped with special instruments for checking the net dynamic thrusts of the waterjet drive and the water impeller tunnel to test and determine the best impeller geometry in terms of efficiency and cavitation margin.
1962
In 1962 a small series of hundreds of scaled water jet units were produced and distributed along the Ticino river, close to the Company Facility in order to allow continuous monitoring by Castoldi technicians.
1969 - 1970
In February 1969 the first mass produced Castoldi water jet unit, model Jet 05, was exhibited for the first time at the Genova Boat Show and released on the market. In 1970 a limited production model of the Jet 05 appeared for the first time in the Pavia-Venezia motor boat race, which was 400 Km long. 
1971-72
From 1971 to 1972 this aluminum 7.5 m boat, equipped with a standard production waterjet unit, won all the Italian off-shore races in the C2 class.
1974
Franco Castoldi won the offshore race Santa Margherita – Montecarlo – Santa Margherita. He travelled 200 nm at an average speed of 57,2 knots with an Enfield 37′ boat equipped with two 600 HP engines and a special twin stage counter revolving waterjet drive, designed by his father Luigi Castoldi. This is, to-date, the only long-distance offshore race in the history of motor boating to be won by a boat having something other than a propeller as its propulsion system.
1984
At the famed Niamey-Bamako river Niger race 1200 NM long 5 boats equipped with Castoldi waterjet drives took the first 5 positions against 37 other much more powerful boats.
1989
One of the two Jet Explorer boats used for an expedition in central Africa, 1989.
1990’s
In the early 90s Castoldi produced the first twin seats jet ski ever made and started exporting it worldwide. To-date, more than 40.000 Castoldi water jet units are operating all over the world; among their operators there is the Italian Customs with their patrol boats.

The second Waverider generation was used in a water chase in Venice during the shooting of a Wim Wenders movie. Castoldi waterjet drives also powered the Destriero support boat during its world speed record crossing the Atlantic Ocean, in 1992.
1998 -
The first Jet Tender unit (called JT 18 PRO) was launched in 1998. This unit was the precursor of the entire present range (in the picture the unit manufactured was for the Carabinieri).